How can I make applications opened by subprocess.Popen() stay open after my script exits?
Question:
I want to launch Excel using subprocess.Popen() but my script doesn’t work as expected.
The following simple script doesn’t work in the way I want it to work. It looks like Excel is terminated immediately when the script ends. What do I need to do to keep it open?
import subprocess
subprocess.Popen(r'C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft OfficerootOffice16EXCEL.EXE')
If I enter the same codes into the interactive shell, it works as expected and Excel stays open.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Answers:
you can use the following
import os
os.system("start excel.exe")
import subprocess
subprocess.run(r’C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficerootOffice16EXCEL.EXE’)
Stays Open Until Exit, Then you get this next line…
CompletedProcess(args=’C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficerootOffice16EXCEL.EXE’, returncode=0)
If you want to do multiple, then multithreading is your answer.
Thank you everyone for answering my question. I was able to solve it myself. The reason Excel terminates was because I ran the script from VS Code. If I run the script from Command Prompt, Excel stays open.
I want to launch Excel using subprocess.Popen() but my script doesn’t work as expected.
The following simple script doesn’t work in the way I want it to work. It looks like Excel is terminated immediately when the script ends. What do I need to do to keep it open?
import subprocess
subprocess.Popen(r'C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft OfficerootOffice16EXCEL.EXE')
If I enter the same codes into the interactive shell, it works as expected and Excel stays open.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
you can use the following
import os
os.system("start excel.exe")
import subprocess
subprocess.run(r’C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficerootOffice16EXCEL.EXE’)
Stays Open Until Exit, Then you get this next line…
CompletedProcess(args=’C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficerootOffice16EXCEL.EXE’, returncode=0)
If you want to do multiple, then multithreading is your answer.
Thank you everyone for answering my question. I was able to solve it myself. The reason Excel terminates was because I ran the script from VS Code. If I run the script from Command Prompt, Excel stays open.